Sources  of  Inspira/on  

•  John  Tukey  –  Exploratory  Data  Analysis  h<p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploratory_data_analysis  

•  Edward  TuDe  h<p://www.edwardtuDe.com/tuDe/  

•  Ben  Schneidermen  h<p://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben  

           See  also:  Jeffrey  Heer    A  Brief  History  of  Data  Visualiza/on  

             h<p://is.gd/gmGiY  

Wa<enberg/Viegas  

•  Baby  name  voyager  h<p://www.babynamewizard.com  

•  Dynamic  visualiza/ons  that  allow  for  explora/on  

•  “democra/za/on”    of  visualiza/on  techniques  

•  “vernacular  visualiza/on”  

Mar/n  Wa<enberg  h<p://www.bewitched.com/  

Wa<enberg/Viegas  

•  Many  eyes    

FlowingMedia  

•  h<p://flowingmedia.com/  

Jeffrey  Heer  

•  Tools:  protovis.org  

Tracing  Genealogical  Data  with  TimeNets  

h<p://vis.stanford.edu/papers//menets  

Jeffrey  Heer  

•  Collabora/ve  visualiza/on  

Visualiza/on  in  the  Humani/es  

•  Franco  MoreX  

Map  of  Sherlock  Holmes’  Inves/ga/ons  

MONK  Project  

•  h<p://www.monkproject.org/  

Cultural  Analy/cs  

•  Lev  Manovich,  Director  SoDware  Studies  Ini/a/ve  h<p://lab.soDwarestudies.com  

•  Visual  Analysis  Toolkit  

•  GigaPixel  Presenter  

h<p://www.flickr.com/photos/culturevis/4038907270  

Cultural  Analy/cs  

•  Comparison  between  128  pain/ngs  by  Piet  Mondrian  (from  1904-­‐1917)  and  168  pain/ngs  by  Mark  Rothko  (from  1934-­‐1970).    

•  X  axis  -­‐  brightness  mean  Y  axis  -­‐  satura/on  mean  

•  One  interes/ng  thing  revealed  by  this  visualiza/on:  in  the  1940s  Rothko  starts  at  exactly  the  same  part  of  brightness/satura/on  space  where  Mondrian  arrives  by  1917.  

•  h<p://www.flickr.com/photos/culturevis/4396210509  

Spa/al  History  Project  

•  h<p://www.stanford.edu/group/spa/alhistory/cgi-­‐bin/site/index.php  

Mitchell  Whitelaw-­‐  Visible  Archives  

•  h<p://visiblearchive.blogspot.com/  

Commons  Explorer  

•  h<p://visiblearchive.blogspot.com/2010/03/commonsexplorer.html  

Urban,  Adamczyck,  Twidale  

Adamczyck  

•  YouTube  MCN  2010  channel  h<p://bit.ly/dpFYlw  

•  Richard  J.  Urban  Graduate  School  of  Library  &  Informa/on  Science  University  of  Illinois  rjurban@illinois  h<p://www.richardurban.net